President of a National African American Gun Association chapter shoots from the hip

Stephen Yorkman, 48, is president and founder of the Prince George’s County chapter of the National African American Gun Association. He lives in Bowie, Md.
Were you always advocacy-minded?
Growing up, the narrative, especially in the black community, was that guns are a bad thing. I wasn’t allowed to have toy guns. What made me want to do something at a social level was the killing of Tamir Rice. Within two seconds his life was just snuffed out. It’s the narrative of blacks with firearms. That’s when I started researching. What can I do about this connotation? What you see sometimes, the rap artists with the firearms, okay, but come look at us: other blacks who are doing safety education. We’re not gangster. We’re just like any Second Amendment enthusiasts.
Do you remember your first experience with guns?
When I was a kid, in D.C. Northeast. I was playing; I saw this gentleman take a brick out of the brick wall and put something in a paper bag, and he put the paper bag back in the hole and put the brick back. I waited till he left. I was curious to see what it was. I took the brick out, took the bag out and there was a revolver in there. How old were you? Second or third grade. I held it, I looked at it and I said, “This is a real gun.” I put it back, but the whole entire day that was on my mind. I went back to see, but it was gone. The movies we saw with blacks and firearms, it was always the pimp or the mugger. Movies where the bad black guy had the gun and the good black guy would fight him with his hands.

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No sane person wants to shoot someone else. Everyday we pray to G-D ALMIGHTY that we never find ourselves in that situation. I know someone who was in the Gulf War and has PTSD from having to shoot a couple of Iraqis in what was a clear cut case of self-defense. It is very difficult to deal with, but what's worse? Dealing with any feelings of guilt after shooting someone who would've killed you with no regrets, or being shot yourself? Otherwise, if they advocate gun safety and responsibly handling firearms, welcome to the club!

The way the Second Amendment was worded clearly shows that the Framers had in mind,first and foremost,allowing individual citizens to protect themselves from an overreaching government.This very point was (fairly) recently made,and very powerfully made,by a certain man from Minnesota who was to go on to become Vice President (google "Humphrey" and "2nd Amendment").

Personal self defense may have also been a consideration.Hunting? Maybe not.

A law abiding citizen of any color has that right...God given...as stated in the Constitution.

I always liked what the head of the National Black Sportsman’s Association said about thirty five years ago.

“When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.”-General Laney

Several years later, the MSM tried to ruin him.

https://www.gunowners.com/litigation/49-laney-railroad

http://www.guncite.com/journals/gun_control_wtr8512.html

“A people unwilling to use extreme violent force to obtain or preserve their liberty deserves the tyrants that rule them” stockpirate.

I couldn’t say it any better. Oh wait i dod.

4 posted on 08/26/2017 2:19:45 PM PDT by stockpirate (SETH RICH gave the emails to wikikileaks via murdered ex-UK Amb, murdered he was, cover up it is)

“When the people fear the government you have tryanny, when the government fear the people you have liberty.

5 posted on 08/26/2017 2:21:12 PM PDT by stockpirate (SETH RICH gave the emails to wikikileaks via murdered ex-UK Amb, murdered he was, cover up it is)

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